Film At The Stockey: Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

7:00 PM

RUMBLE marks the opening of the GCHI DEWIN Indigenous Storytellers Festival. The Festival, including this opening TIFF Film presentation, is a FREE event.

When recalling Link Wray's shivering guitar classic,
"Rumble," Martin Scorsese marvels, "It is the sound of that
guitar . . . the aggression." Wray was the first to deploy thumping power
chords and hone distortion, carving out a new guitar sound that influenced rock
and roll forever. But as a Native American, Wray's music was a threat-and it
was treated as such.

Blues pioneer Charlie Patton, cherished jazz singer
Mildred Bailey, and metaphysical wizard Jimi Hendrix are among the many music
greats who have Native American heritage and have created their distinctive
music amid the attempted cleansing of indigenous culture from the country. Their music was not even meant to exist. Using playful re-creations and
little-known stories, alongside concert footage, audio archives, and interviews
with living legends, this deeply insightful film cements how some of our most
treasured artists and songs found their inspiration in ancient, native melodies
and harmonies that were infused with a desire to resist. You'll never listen to
your favorite rock and roll classics the same way again.

Rated 14A

This TIFF Film Event is a co-presentation of the Stockey Centre and the GCHI DEWIN Indigenous Storytellers Festival